Daily Archives: October 17th, 2007 «

 

Site announcement (Weds/Thurs open thread)

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 9:55 pm » 6 Comments

FYI, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week I will be away from the computer. Brian at Liberty Pundit, who has done a great job of guestblogging for me in the past, will take over the controls while I’m away. Assuming it doesn’t rain on Saturday, I’ll be taking a day trip to the mountains and [...]

 

Democrats can’t get it together on FISA, shut down debate (MORE: HOUSE DEMS PULL FISA BILL – FOR NOW)

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 7:10 pm » 4 Comments

Brian Faughnan at The Weekly Standard has a post up on the Democrats’ latest FISA shenanigans: Not many people are familiar with the House Rules Committee, or why it has so much power to determine what legislation passes the House. Simply put, the Committee sets the terms for debate of all significant legislation–how long a [...]

 

Reminder: 2007 Weblog award nominations

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 3:40 pm » 1 Comment

I’m reposting this, as Kevin Aylward extended the deadline for nominations til midnight tonight (I presume that’s eastern time). Thanks to all who have nominated me so far. For those who haven’t, there’s still time. It’s that time again – time for nominations for the 2007 Weblog Awards. Yours truly was a finalist in 2005 [...]

 

Liberal media desperation story of the week

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 2:30 pm » 5 Comments

The liberal McClatchy news site reports that business “isn’t good” for one cemetary in Iraq, as a result of the surge: NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good. A drop in violence around Iraq has [...]

 

The latest on Hillary’s Hsu money

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 11:06 am » 4 Comments

The LA Times reports that Hillary’s not returning all that Hsu money after all: WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton returned more than $800,000 in contributions donated to her presidential campaign that were arranged by alleged swindler Norman Hsu. But campaign officials said Tuesday they had no plans to return more than $260,000 that many of [...]

 

Site RSS feed problems (UPDATE: FIXED!)

Posted by: ST on October 17, 2007 at 6:41 am » 8 Comments

Several readers have emailed me to let me know that there is a problem with my site’s RSS atom feed. I am working on getting that resolved, and will post an update when it gets fixed. In the meantime, here’s an alternate link you can use in your RSS feed readers for the ST blog: [...]